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VOL. I DECEMBER 1887 No.II
THE VOLANTE.
Published monthly by the Students' Association of the University of Dakota.
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BOARD OF EDITORS:
H. S. Houston, '88; C. W. Brinstad, '88; Chas. Stickney, '89;
E. A. Burgess, '90; Carrie Daily, '91; Lillie Bower, '91.
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BOARD OF MANAGERS
H. M. WALLACE, '91; NELLIE SHURTLEFF, '91; A. A. BOYNTON, '91.
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HERBERT S. HOUSTON, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF.
A. ALBERT BOYTON, BUSINESS MANAGER.
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Terms, $1.00 per year. Single copies, 15 cents.
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SANCTUM
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We do not intend, at any time, to assume
a Pharasaical spirit of fault-finding and quibble
over imagined injuries. But we do intend to
watch with jealous care the interests of our
University and its students. Accordingly we shall
ever be quick to rectify incorrect statements and
wrong impressions that can do them injury.
One of these incorrect statements came under
our observation recently while perusing the
paper of a neighboring institution. In this paper
we noticed our University referred to as the
Vermillion University. That the bestowing of
this misnomer should have resulted from
ignorance of our generally accepted and legal title is
highly improbable. That the mistake was even
unintentional is hardly possible, yet it might
have been, and we will give the offender the
benefit of the doubt. Though unintentional,
the injury done us would not be lessened. It
would be a pleasanter task for the editor,
however, to chide carelessness than to censure
malevolence. But as to the injury, is it real or fancied?
That it is the former we unhesitatingly affirm.
The character of our University cannot, of course,
be affected by a misnomer but its reputation can
be, and its reputation is of the utmost
importance. It is a well-known fact that there become
attached to the name of a university, certain
generally accepted ideas with reference to the
advantages it offers, to the work that it does,
indeed to everything connected with it. And it is
unquestionably of vital importance to a
university that this name, which stands for its entire
content, be preserved. Moreover, the most
obtuse cannot fail to comprehend that a confusion
of ideas must result, when a university is
referred to by several names. But, ignoring the
question of injury, what justification can there
possibly be for a college paper to refer to any
college or university by a wrong name? Is it
not always possible for the correct name to be
ascertained? Unquestionably it is. Then is it
not fair to expect, and indeed reasonable to
demand that the correct name be used? We think
so, and accordingly will insist at all times that
our University and all other universities be
referred to by their generally accepted and legal
names.
--------------------
What the University of Dakota needs more
than anything else at present is a good
gymnasium for its students, and we are happy to
announce that active measures are already on foot
to procure one. Now that cold weather has set
in and the campus no longer offers attractions
for athletic sports, — unless it be an occasional
snow-ball fight with the dormitory girls — our
opportunities for physical exercise are
necessarily very much limited. Some of us have been
driven to attempt to supply our need in this re-

VOL. I DECEMBER 1887 No.II
THE VOLANTE.
Published monthly by the Students' Association of the University of Dakota.
--------------------
BOARD OF EDITORS:
H. S. Houston, '88; C. W. Brinstad, '88; Chas. Stickney, '89;
E. A. Burgess, '90; Carrie Daily, '91; Lillie Bower, '91.
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BOARD OF MANAGERS
H. M. WALLACE, '91; NELLIE SHURTLEFF, '91; A. A. BOYNTON, '91.
--------------------
HERBERT S. HOUSTON, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF.
A. ALBERT BOYTON, BUSINESS MANAGER.
--------------------
Terms, $1.00 per year. Single copies, 15 cents.
--------------------
--------------------
SANCTUM
--------------------
We do not intend, at any time, to assume
a Pharasaical spirit of fault-finding and quibble
over imagined injuries. But we do intend to
watch with jealous care the interests of our
University and its students. Accordingly we shall
ever be quick to rectify incorrect statements and
wrong impressions that can do them injury.
One of these incorrect statements came under
our observation recently while perusing the
paper of a neighboring institution. In this paper
we noticed our University referred to as the
Vermillion University. That the bestowing of
this misnomer should have resulted from
ignorance of our generally accepted and legal title is
highly improbable. That the mistake was even
unintentional is hardly possible, yet it might
have been, and we will give the offender the
benefit of the doubt. Though unintentional,
the injury done us would not be lessened. It
would be a pleasanter task for the editor,
however, to chide carelessness than to censure
malevolence. But as to the injury, is it real or fancied?
That it is the former we unhesitatingly affirm.
The character of our University cannot, of course,
be affected by a misnomer but its reputation can
be, and its reputation is of the utmost
importance. It is a well-known fact that there become
attached to the name of a university, certain
generally accepted ideas with reference to the
advantages it offers, to the work that it does,
indeed to everything connected with it. And it is
unquestionably of vital importance to a
university that this name, which stands for its entire
content, be preserved. Moreover, the most
obtuse cannot fail to comprehend that a confusion
of ideas must result, when a university is
referred to by several names. But, ignoring the
question of injury, what justification can there
possibly be for a college paper to refer to any
college or university by a wrong name? Is it
not always possible for the correct name to be
ascertained? Unquestionably it is. Then is it
not fair to expect, and indeed reasonable to
demand that the correct name be used? We think
so, and accordingly will insist at all times that
our University and all other universities be
referred to by their generally accepted and legal
names.
--------------------
What the University of Dakota needs more
than anything else at present is a good
gymnasium for its students, and we are happy to
announce that active measures are already on foot
to procure one. Now that cold weather has set
in and the campus no longer offers attractions
for athletic sports, — unless it be an occasional
snow-ball fight with the dormitory girls — our
opportunities for physical exercise are
necessarily very much limited. Some of us have been
driven to attempt to supply our need in this re-